Sue Marsh writes about the DWP's refusal to send anyone on the radio to debate her on the ESA cuts.
I’ve just heard the Department for Work and Pensions has refused to send anyone to Radio 4’s You and Yours show on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow (12 noon) to defend and debate with me the changes we exposed in #esaSOS.
Despite leading barristers saying they are illegal and professors of medicine saying they are immoral and unworkable, the DWP haven’t answered a single point we raised. Again.
It’s remarkable. People are suffering – 140,000 people have been proven to have been unfairly stripped of their livelihood. We challenge them, they don’t even deny we’re right, but they sit there in their ivory towers and say, “so sue us”.
Well, DWP, we will and if you think I’ll stop at defeating you on ESA you’re wrong. I’ll make sure every last one of you is held personally accountable for the horrific assault you’re inflicting on vulnerable people in the UK who need you most.
In the next few weeks, I will release stories proving you are liars and cheats. I promise, you will not be able to hide from these. You will have no defence, no one to blame but yourselves. And yes, I’ll do it from my hospital bed, and yes, I’ll do it fed into my central line, and yes, I will win.
And think on this DWP – you’ve left me the whole show to say what I like unopposed.
This article was originally published on Sue’s blog, “Diary of a Benefit Scrounger”; follow Sue on Twitter: @suey2y.
See also:
• ESA SOS: Another day, another attack on disabled people – January 17th, 2013
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64 Responses to “Comment: IDS and the DWP can run, but they can’t hide”
Mason Dixon, Autistic
1. I know, you’ve already said and I didn’t say anything that disagrees with this.
2. I told you why the period matters. Rather than actually read my post, did you just parse it for key-words that trigger your pavlovian Right-wing talking point responses?
Try reading next time.
Tony Turtle
They didn’t want one of their “Shout Over the Opposite Debater” ministers heard to be bullying a disabled person!
Popstar2012
One of the reasons there is an increase in disability claimants is the ongoing improvement in clinical medicine. Babies who have died in years past can be saved to live a life, and new and better scientific understanding yields more effective treatments saving more who would have died. More and more people are wounded in wars, and surviving terrible injuries as battlefield surgery improves. More industrial workers are being damaged by complex chemicals, and also being saved. More people are living longer, and disabilities tend to increase with age.
By the way, what have you personally got against these people having a life ? Do you work in banking, finance or PR ?
TristanPriceWilliams
Bravo Sue. You’re an absolute star.
LB
What do you have against the people whose money you’ve taken to pay for hidding the unemployed under the disability category?
26K a year workers have lost out 430,000 pounds to pay for this and others, to be left with a state pension worth 130K. A state pension that the state can’t pay.
Ah yes, perhaps you don’t care about them.